That's true enough.
We have one idea, and there may be others here. ACTRA has been arguing since 1993, when a government in office at the time made a drastic cut to the government's portion of the Canadian Television Fund, for increased funding to the CTF, funding that comes not only from the big cable companies but also from the federal budget. There was a $25 million cut then, which was partly restored, we think thanks to the demonstration ACTRA did in the spring of 2003.
The CTF has part of its funds dedicated to production that the CBC can buy. The CBC buys production since they don't have in-house casting and in-house production anymore and have laid off their technicians because of budget constraints; they do license, or commission, independent productions. We believe that if the CTF were more adequately funded--if the CTF pool were a bigger fund of money--then the CBC's portion of it would certainly add some millions to it.
It hasn't been ACTRA's aim to come up with funding models, but certainly we've had discussion among our colleagues and with our coalition partners on this question.
Ken, can you think of anything else?